Copyright 2015 Mara Dani Photographer: Mara Dani (born in Brindisi and resides in Bari, Italy) Self-published Essays: Gian Luigi Sylos Labini and Alessandro Crilillo Text: Italian and English Hardcover book with exposed boards and spine, belly band and elastic band closure, two-color offset printing with sewn binding, various papers, pagination and captions, printed by Presso Grafica... Continue Reading →
Lorne Resnick – CUBA
Copyright 2015 Lorne Resnick Photographer: Lorne Resnick (born Toronto, Canada, resides Los Angeles, CA, USA) Publisher: Insight Editions (USA) Essays: Lorne Resnick, Brian Andreas, Pico Iyer, Gerry Badger Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in China Photobook designer: Leah Bloise Notes: In conjunction with the opening of travel by the United States into Cuba,... Continue Reading →
Sara Terry – Elvis in the Tree
Copyright 2016 Sara Terry Photographer: Sara Terry (b. Detroit and resides in Los Angeles, USA) Self-Published: 10 (X) Editions Text: English Hardcover artist book (boards with hand stamp and hand inscription on cover) with elastic belly band, leporello interior design, pigment ink prints with clear corner stays, hand-printed, limited edition book of 10. Photobook designer: Sara Terry Notes: Sara... Continue Reading →
Aline Smithson – Self & Others
Copyright 2015 Aline Smithson Photographer: Aline Smithson (born & resides Los Angeles, CA, USA) Publisher: Magenta Foundation (Canada) Essays: Paula Tognarelli, Karen Sinsheimer & Aline Smithson (A.S.) Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in China Photobook designer: Office of Gilbert Li _______________ Review by Douglas Stockdale This monograph is a wonderful mid-career touch-point (as I... Continue Reading →
Portfolio Reviewer at LACP Exposure 2016
Susan Burnstine, a Portfolio Reviewer for LACP Exposure 2016 I will be among the 19 Portfolio Reviewers, joining Susan Burnstine, Aline Smithson, Julia Dean, Kirk Pederson, Sarah Lee, Chris Davies to name only a few, for the Los Angeles Center of Photography's (LACP) "Exposure 2016" event being held at the end of July at Santa... Continue Reading →
Kurt Simonson – Northwoods Journals
Copyright 2015 Kurt Simonson Photographer: Kurt Simonson (born St Paul, MN, resides Long Beach CA, USA) Publisher: Flash Powder Projects (USA) Essay by George Slade, Poem by Franz Wright Text: English Hardcover book, sewn binding, multiple gate-folds, tipped-in tri-fold page, four-color lithography, printed by Bigger Dot in South Korea Photobook designer: Kurt Simonson, David Bram, Jennifer Schwartz Notes: Kurt Simonson’s... Continue Reading →
My take-away from Photo Book Independent
copyright the photographers, 2016 Douglas Stockdale A quick shout out of thanks to all of the photobook photographers & artist at Photo Book Independent. Above is a photo of my book acquisitions, trades & gifts. Not in any particular order, these include: Aline Smithson's Self & Others, published by The Magenta Foundation (lucky me, I... Continue Reading →
Jan Brykczynski – Boiko
Copyright 2014 Jan Brykczynski Photographer: Jan Brykczynski (born & resides Warsaw, Poland) Self-published (Poland) with support by Sputnik Photos Essays: Taras Prokhas’ko Text: English on a double-gate spread with Polish and Ukrainian text insert Hardcover book, embossed cover with magnetic closure, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Poland. Photobook designer: Ana Natecka, Tapir Book Design Notes: Brykczynski has uses a... Continue Reading →
Brad Temkin – Rooftop
Copyright 2015 Brad Temkin Photographer: Brad Temkin (born & resides Chicago, IL) Publisher: Radius Books (USA) Essays: John Rohrbach, Steven Peck, Roger Schickedantz Text: English Hardcover with glued boards and accompanying perfect-bond booklet (essay and list of plates), Lucite slipcase, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Verona, Italy Photobook designer: David Chickey and David Skolkin Notes: The rooftops... Continue Reading →
Curatorial walk thru at Photo Book Independent
The schedule for talks, book signings and curatorial discussions has just been posted for Photo Book Independent, a part of Photo Independent later this month in LA (Hollywood) I am honored to have an opportunity to provide two curatorial walk-through's to discuss the photobooks that were recently juried-in for the book competition as well as those that are... Continue Reading →